In the lead up to Showtime’s Who Is America?, failed Senate candidate (and alleged pedophile) Roy Moore joined a slew of other right-wing political figures in admitting that they’d been duped by Sacha Baron Cohen’s series. Moore, for example, threatened Showtime with legal action if they aired a “defamatory attack” on…

Choosing a name is one of the most important decisions a new band can make. And in this year of our lord 2018—when solid names like Car Seat Headrest and The String Cheese Incident are already taken—finding a really good name that will stand the test of time seems nearly impossible. Luckily, up-and-coming artists can…

Are YouTubers really the future of comedy? Not Darren Knight, a YouTuber and self-proclaimed “fastest rising comedian in American history” who blends the down-home condescension of Jeff Foxworthy and the kitschy misogyny of Tyler Perry’s Madea in a character he calls Southern Momma. Here’s his most recent video:

John Oliver returned from a mini-hiatus with an extra-long Last Week Tonight on Sunday. After an abbreviated roundup of several weeks’ backlog of Donald Trump’s toilet tweets, the host launched into his main story about workplace sexual harassment, touched off by the fact that CBS President Les Moonves was just outed…

What is it with Brooklyn and funny cops? We’ve already got Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and now Netflix is getting into the game with The Good Cop, a new series starring Tony Danza and Josh Groban that comes from Monk creator Andy Breckman. The show stars Groban as the eponymous cop that is good, with Danza playing his father,…

Netflix has shared some new premiere dates and new trailers today, and now it has also announced four new original shows. The first is Madam C.J. Walker, which counts LeBron James and Octavia Spencer among its executive producers and will star Spencer as the eponymous C.J. Walker. Based on A’Lelia Bundles’ book On Her…

Nothing makes a Sunday afternoon go down smoother than some trailers, so we’ve compiled a delightful little mixture of videos promoting upcoming movies and TV shows that you can now feel free to casually sip out on your patio or while watching the big sports game from your comfy chair. Today we’ve got teasers for Ozark…

It’s Netflix day at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, which the streamer kicked off with a choir performance and lots of spandex. Your A.V. Club correspondents are shivering with anticipation over the prospect of a third season of GLOW (which has, bafflingly enough, not yet been ordered), as well…

Supergroup Prophets Of Rage is already set to continue its crusade to bring down Donald Trump with another album of political rock music, but Prophets Of Rage’ Tom Morello is also ready to drop a new solo album later this year. As reported by Consequence Of Sound, the album is called The Atlas Underground and it’ll…

It’s not really fair to criticize the average Jeopardy! contestant, since even the smarted person could go in and get destroyed by its brutal rules and annoying insistence on quizzing people about European monarchies, but Wolf Blitzer wasn’t the average Jeopardy! contestant when he appeared on a celebrity edition of…

Michael B. Jordan’s time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is probably over, barring some flashback scenes in the Black Panther sequel or a weird side effect of the snap heard ’round existence at the end of Avengers: Infinity War. But his raw and powerful performance as Erik Killmonger (a.k.a N’Jadaka) earned him lots…

It’s always a little terrifying when something from Twitter makes its way into the real world, but the city of Vancouver has proven that not all social media interactions result in negativity—though 99 percent of them still do. After Vancouver’s TransLink transit network decided to pull an advertising campaign with…

Back in November, the LAPD launched an investigation into former Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick, who had been accused of rape by three separate women. Days later, Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey put together a task force dedicated to working on sexual harassment and abuse cases coming out of the entertainment…

Buzz has been steadily building up for more than a year now for The Romanoffs, the first new TV project from Emmy-drenched writer Matthew Weiner since his beloved Mad Men went off the air. Now, Amazon has finally revealed a premiere date for the new show—reportedly an anthology series about a variety of oddballs whose…

Given that it remains the most consistently and critically beloved series on the network’s roster, it’s not entirely shocking to learn that Breaking Bad prequel series Better Call Saul has now been granted a fifth-season renewal order, roughly a week before its fourth was set to premiere. Not only does the series…

Jason Segel has spent the four years since How I Met Your Mother ended doing a lot of determinedly interesting things: Playing David Foster Wallace, writing YA novels, even doing the occasional bit of death-based acting. Now, he’s headed back to the small screen in earnest, with AMC announcing today that it’s picked…

Fresh off the finger-snapping fun of Avengers: Infinity War—and even as they’re deep into post-production work on the still-untitled Avengers 4—brothers Joe and Anthony Russo are revving up their next big project. Amazon announced today that it was teaming up with the pair—who got their start in TV, back before they…

Amazon decided to dump a big rush delivery of new TV news on our doorsteps today, taking advantage of its day in the spotlight at the TCA summer press tour to roll out all sorts of new info—some expected, some not—about its upcoming and ambitious slate of shows. We already talked a bit about the company’s continuing…

Threatening to recklessly cross the streams of the various branches of geekdom—itself a dangerous reference to yet another beloved nerd property—Amazon announced today that it was hiring JD Payne and Patrick McKay to head up development on its long-anticipated Lord Of The Rings TV show. Payne and McKay are relative…